Philosophy Documentation Center
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| Publisher, service provider | |
| Industry | Publishing, Internet services |
| Genre | Applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies |
| Founded | Bowling Green State University, 1966 |
| Headquarters | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States |
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Key people
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George Leaman (director), Pamela Swope (associate director), Susanne Mueller-Grote (electronic publishing) |
| Products | Academic journals, conference proceedings, anthologies, reference work, academic databases, digital media |
| Services | Membership management, content digitization & hosting |
| Website | www |
The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit publisher and resource center that provides access to scholarly materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, religious studies, and related disciplines. It publishes academic journals, conference proceedings, anthologies, and online research databases, often in cooperation with scholarly and professional associations. It also provides membership management and electronic publishing services, and hosts electronic journals, series, and other publications from several countries.
The Philosophy Documentation Center was established in 1966 at Bowling Green State University in Ohio to manage the publication of specialized reference works in philosophy. It was founded by two members of the university philosophy department, Ramona Cormier and Richard Lineback, who recognized a need to improve access to the growing body of philosophical literature in English and other languages. Its first publication was The Philosopher’s Index, which provided bibliographic listings, indexed by subject and author, of recently published journal articles in philosophy. In 1970 PDC assumed responsibility for the publication of the Directory of American Philosophers and the International Directory of Philosophy and Philosophers.
In 1974, PDC began publishing a series of research bibliographies to provide systematic overviews of the primary and secondary work of major philosophers. That same year PDC published its first journal, Philosophy Research Archives, in cooperation with the American Philosophical Association and the Canadian Philosophical Association. This bilingual project was established in microfiche format in an effort to overcome the space limitations of traditional print journals. This concept was developed by representatives of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Humanities Research Council of Canada, PDC, and the American and Canadian philosophical associations. It was one of the earliest experiments with non-traditional formats in journal publishing and is freely available online.
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